Dan,
Looks and sounds nice. Take your time and get used to the car before pushing the limits on it. 5500 rpms sounds nice, but unless you are on a race track there are very few practical applications of that speed and power in most traffic situations. Remember those frontal lobes. Hell, I just took a 1,000 mile trip to ERA, New Hampshire and back and with a 3.54 rear end at 75 mph I was only running 3500 rpms. I was talking with a fellow cobra owner at a car show recently and he talked about his first experience passing someone in his cobra and how he did his usual of step on the gas and then pull out into the passing lane and he nearly hit the guy in the rear end. Now he pulls out and then hits the gas.
There is no lag between when you hit the gas and you go, and I do not mean flooring it, just a gentle push on the pedal will make the car jump. I had no problem merging into the fast land when I was coming up on somebody. I could out accelerate anybody coming up from behind me in the other lane. All I had to do was make sure that there was nobody on my side.
It was nice to see Peter, Jack and the other employees who were there. Enjoy the car, you must be smiling from ear to ear.
